American Serena Williams blows a kiss to her fans after defeating Conchita Martinez of Spain in a quarter-final of the Rome Masters at Foro Italico...
Vice President Dick Cheney addresses a speech to Italian leaders at the senate in Rome 26 January 2004. Cheney called for a stronger NATO as part of...
Inter Milan's coach Roberto Mancini gestures during Lazio vs Inter Milan Serie A football match at Rome's Olympic stadium 12 March 2005. The match...
British Finlay Mickel jumps on his way to take the 23th best time of the 4th Ski World Cup Men's Downhill second day official training in the Italian...
Carolina Kostner of Italy performs in the final gala at the European Figure Skating Championships in Turin 30 January 2005. AFP PHOTO/Paolo COCCO
Carolina Kostner of Italy performs in the final Gala at the European Figure Skating Championships in Turin 30 January 2005. AFP PHOTO/Paolo COCCO
Maria Petrova of Russia performs in the final Gala at the European Figure Skating Championships in Turin 30 January 2005. AFP PHOTO/Paolo COCCO
Skiers compete in the World Cup women's 15km pursuit cross country race in Tesero 11 December 2004. Norway's Marit Bjoergen won the race while...
Skiers compete in the World Cup men's 30km pursuit cross country race in Tesero 11 December 2004. German Axel Teichmann won the race, ahead of Jens...
Italy's Manuela Moelgg speeds down to reach the 58th best time during the 5th Women's World Cup Downhill first day officilal training in the Italian...
Spectator watches the pack riding under the rain during the fifth stage of the 91st Tour de France cycling race between Amiens and Chartres, 08 July...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smiles during a ceremony to honour Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli at the British Embassy in Rome 24...
Evgeni Plushenko of Russia leaves the ice rink at the end of the men's short program competition at the European Figure Skating Championships in...
Evgeni Plushenko of Russia acknowledges the applause at the end of the men's Short Program competition at the European Figure Skating Championships...
Amelie Mauresmo of France sprays champagne after winning the final match at the Italian Masters against U.S. Jennifer Capriati in Rome 16 May 2004....
Amelie Mauresmo of France eyes the ball as ahe preapares to returns a ball to American Jennifer Capriati during their quarter-finals match at the...
French designer Christian Lacroix smiles at the end of Emilio Pucci's Spring/Summer 2005 women's collection at Milan's fashion week 28 September...
French fashion designer Christian Lacroix embraces a member of his team backstage at the end of his Spring/Summer 2005 women's collection for the...
French fashion designer Christian Lacroix looks at a model backstage during his Spring/Summer 2005 women's collection for the Italian line Pucci at...
Pope John Paul II is carried to St. Peter's Basilica from the Apostolic Palace 04 April 2005 in the Vatican City. After the solemn procession the...
The Pope's body is carried to be transfered from the Apostolic Palace to St Peter's Basilica, 04 April 2005 at the Vatican City. After the solemn...
The Pope's body is carried to be transfered from the Apostolic Palace to St Peter's Basilica, 04 April 2005 at the Vatican City. After the solemn...
Faithfuls raise their hands in the air in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican City 04 April 2005. Keen to pay their last respect to Pope John Paul II,...
Pope John Paul II holds his face as he appears behind the window of Rome's Gemelli hospital 13 March 2005, during his traditional Sunday Angelus...
Faithfuls pray at St Peter's Square in the Vatican City, 02 April 2005, after the death of Pope John Paul II. "The Holy Father died this evening at...
Pope John Paul II waves as he makes a brief appearance at the window of his room at he Gemelli Polyclinc hospital in Rome 09 March 2005. The pope,...
Pope John Paul II observes three minutes of silence for the victims of the southeast Asian tsunami at the end of his weekly's general audience in the...
Pope John Paul II peers out behind the window of Rome's Gemelli hospital 13 March 2005, during his traditional Sunday Angelus prayer. The 84-year-old...
Pope John Paul II watches a statue of Jesus at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican during the celebration of a mass marking World Peace Day 01...
Pope John Paul II prays at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican during the celebration of a mass marking World Peace Day 01 January 2004. Pope John...
Cardinal Bernard Law , who recently resigned as Archbishop of Boston, talks with Pope John Paul II at the end of the weekly's general audience in St...
Pope John Paul II waves to pilgrims gathered at the Vatican for the weekly's general audience 27 August 2003. A frail Pope returned to hold his first...
Picture taken 08 April 2005 during the funeral ceremony of Pope John Paul II in St Peter's square at the Vatican shows Mexican Cardinal Norberto...
Cardinals arrive for the funeral of Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square at the Vatican City 08 April 2005. The world looked on Rome as leaders...
The coffin carrying the body of Pope John Paul II is taken inside St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican City 08 April 2005 after the funeral mass. The...
The wind lifts the cap of Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini during the funeral of Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square at the Vatican City 08...
Woman prays at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City, 02 April 2005, after the death of Pope John Paul II. "The Holy Father died this evening at...
Pope John Paul II prays in front of the tomb of bishop Anton Maria Slomsek in Maribor September 19. The 79-year-old Pontiff is in Slovenia for a...
Pope John Paul Il prays in Bucharest's Catholic cemetery 08 May 1999. Pope John Paul and Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teocist are to call on Saturday...
South African President Nelson Mandela walks flanked by Pope John Paul II at the end of their meeting at the Vatican June 18. Mandela thanked the...
South African President Nelson Mandela talks with Pope John Paul II during their meeting at the Vatican 18 June 1998. Mandela thanked the Pope for...
New Swiss Guard recruits stand during a swearing-in ceremony in the Vatican 06 May 2003. Pope John Paul II said "thank you" to his Swiss Guard on...
Pope John Paul II looks on from the Palatine Hill during the Stations of the Cross ceremony in Rome 18 April 2003. The 82-year-old pontiff this year...
German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher , flanked by his teammate Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello, throws his cap from the podium of the Monza...
Colombian BMW-Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya arrives in the paddocks of the Monza racetrack, 12 September 2003, after the first qualifying...
Russia's Julia Tchepalova smiles in the finish area after winning the World Cup women's 4x5km relay cross country race in Tesero 12 December 2004....
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli poses at the British Embassy in Rome before receiving the medal of knighthood from the British ambassador to...
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli poses at the British Embassy in Rome before receiving the medal of knighthood from the British ambassador to...
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smile to the photographers at the British Embassy in Rome 24...
Combo of files pictures shows a rugby ball on March 19, 2005 and a golfer on April 8, 2009. Rugby Sevens and golf virtually secured their spots as...
Former Parma football club President Stefano Tanzi watches the Parma vs Inter Milan Serie A soccer match at Ennio Tardini stadium in Parma 10 January...
Agence France Presse motorcyclist Georges Stylianos works with Paolo Cocco, an AFP photographer, during the seventh stage of the 91st Tour de France...
This combo image shows the level of river Tiber in Rome in front of San Pietro Basilica on February 8, 2005 and early on December 12, 2008 . Violent...
Lance Armstrong eats during the eighth stage of the 90th Tour de France cycling race between Sallanches and l'Alpe d'Huez, 13 July 2003. AFP PHOTO...
England's center Jason Robinson challenges Italy's center Cristian Stoica during the VI nations rugby union match between Italy and England, 15...
Combo realized 19 July 2007 of file pictures taken in 2005 when cheering on the riders , in 2003 for the hundred-year-old Tour and recently in London...
- Picture taken 05 February 2005 of bishops from a delegation of Sant Egidio community at the Policlinico Gemelli's hospital in Rome. US President...
Crecy-la-Chapelle, FRANCE: FILES - Picture taken 03 July 2003 in Crecy-la-Chapelle shows German cyclist Erik Zabel smiling after a training session...
Vatican City, VATICAN CITY STATE: - Picture taken 21 October 2003 at the Vatican of Newly appointed cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Italy receiving his...
- Picture taken 06 January 2005 of Lazio's forward Paolo Di Canio grimacing to Lazio fans during Lazio vs AS Roma Serie A football match at Rome's...